Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar A championship expected to foster the intellectual capacities of students and prepare grounds for budding students’ politicians in Nigerian universities will be hosted by the University of Calabar. This was disclosed by Prof Eyong Ubana Eyong, the institution’s Dean Students Affairs in an interactive session with... Read more
Commission Wants Nigerian States to Enact Fiscal Responsibility Laws, To Foster Financial Discipline
From: Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar States in Nigeria’s federating unit have been told to establish their respective FIs cal Responsibility commissions and enact laws that foster financial discipline. The call was made Tuesday by Dr Sylvanus Mordi, Commissioner Policy and Standards in the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) in an interview... Read more
A seven day ultimatum has been issued to authorities of ExxonMobil by Stakeholders in Eket Federal Constituency for the full payments of N26.5bn oil to the four oil producing local governments as compensation or risk mass protest and action. Arising from a meeting in Eket, the communities under the... Read more
Diana Okon-Effiong,Calabar Dr Etim Okon Edet, Paramount Ruler of Bakassi Local Government Area of Cross River says the problem of resettlement still plagued Bakassi people 12 years after the Peninsula was ceded to Cameroun. Edet who is also Chairman Cross River State Traditional Rulers’ Council stated this in Calabar... Read more
Diana Okon-Effiong, Calabar Etubom Essien Cobham, the father of State Deputy Governor,Mr Efiok Cobham, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in his country home, Eyewitnesses said the gunmen took away the elder statesman at about 2.am Friday in his residence at Creek Town, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross... Read more
The Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) has counselled the country’s National Assembly to suspend the ongoing constitutional amendment which it is undertaking since President Goodluk Jonathan has constituted a committee for the convocation of a national conference in the country. According to the NUJ, proceeding with the constitutional amendment... Read more
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has disclosed that the state University Teaching Hospital, Oghara would start kidney transplant latest in February just as he acknowledged the tremendous increase in medical tourism to the State. Governor Uduaghan who stated this Tuesday night during a Radio/Television Phone-in-Programme at the Delta Broadcasting... Read more
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson on Monday justified the proposed 60m euros Tied Direct Aid, (TDA) from Poland, arguing that it is not a loan facility as being rumoured by members of the opposition. This is just as he ordered the immediate arrest of some civil servants over... Read more
Bayelsa Puts Sylva’s Aide Under Security Watch
Nigeria October 3, 2013
The Special Adviser on Security Matters to the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Richard Perekeme Kpodoh has been put under security watch over an alleged inciting statement. In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the government has directed... Read more
Another tragic air disaster hit Nigeria Thursday morning when an Associated Airline aircraft conveying the remains of the former governor of Ondo State, Dr. Segun Agagu, from Lagos to the state capital, Akure, crashed at the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport killing an unspecified number... Read more
